Blueprint - How DNA Makes Us Who We Are by Robert Plomin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses. In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict o ...Show more
Not Born Yesterday - The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe by Hugo Mercier
$54.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe--and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion--wh ...Show more
Never Enough by Judith Grisel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might have a cure, one that she herself could perhaps discover by studying the brain. Now, after twenty-five years as a neuroscientist, she shares what she and other scientists have learned about addict ...Show more
Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel Levitin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world where the line between truth and lies is increasingly blurred by euphemistic terms such as 'post-truth', 'counter-knowledge', 'fringe theories' and others. In a world w ...Show more
Am I Dreaming? New Science of Consciousness... by James Kingsland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A scientific travel guide to altered states of consciousness - and what we can learn from them.
Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense ...Show more
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness by Simon Baron-Cohen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
In Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness Simon Baron-Cohen takes fascinating and challenging new look at what exactly makes our behaviour uniquely human. How can we ever explain human cruelty? We have always struggled to understand why some people behave in the most evil ...Show more
Nudge - Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, the Final Edition by Richard H. Thaler; Cass R. Sunstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
The book that changed the way we think, work and live - a fully revised edition with 66% new materialNudge has transformed the way individuals, companies and governments look at the world - and in the process has become one of the most important books of the twenty-first century. This completely updated ...Show more
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. hat joy reveals an ...Show more
Great Minds Don't Think Alike - Discover the Method and Madness of 56 Creative Geniuses by Emily Gosling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Uncover the method and madness behind the greatest minds in history. Great Minds Don't Think Alike surveys some of the most brilliant minds of the past and present. Discover the methods and rituals they used to forge a constructive, creative pathway, from the downright peculiar to the reassuringly p ...Show more
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by KATE SUMMERSCALE
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Do you recoil in arachnophobic horror at the si ...Show more
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov; Mig Greengard (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. That moment was more than a centur ...Show more